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title: Isaiah 30:20 (JPS 1917) — And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water, yet shal… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 30:20 · JPS 1917

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And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water, yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more, but thine eyes shall see thy Teacher;

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**Who acts:** Lord, Teacher, eyes · **What happens:** give, spare, not hide, see · **To what, where:** sparing bread, you, LORD, Teacher

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This is Isaiah 30:20 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, Teacher, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ISA:638
# text = And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water, yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more, but thine eyes shall see thy Teacher;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	sparing	spare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	scant	scant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the Lord | sparing bread and scant water | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bread=Theme |
| 2 | **spare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **hide** | shall | thy Teacher | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | shall | thine eyes | thy Teacher |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teacher=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְנָתַ֨ן לָכֶ֧ם אֲדֹנָ֛י לֶ֥חֶם צָ֖ר וּמַ֣יִם לָ֑חַץ וְלֹֽא־יִכָּנֵ֥ף עוֹד֙ מוֹרֶ֔יךָ וְהָי֥וּ עֵינֶ֖יךָ רֹא֥וֹת אֶת־מוֹרֶֽיךָ׃

[Isaiah 30:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.20/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:638` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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